Carver County, MN Parking Rules: RV & Boat Parking (2026)

032 draws a size line for how many licensed vehicles a property can store outside a building: parcels smaller than one and one-half acres cannot accumulate more than five licensed vehicles outdoors, a limit separate from the section's two-vehicle cap on unlicensed or inoperable vehicles. Because the section's definition of 'motor vehicle' expressly reaches boats, motorcycles and recreational vehicles in addition to cars, trucks, and semi tractors or trailers, and applies regardless of whether the item has a motor, a licensed travel trailer, camper, or boat on its trailer parked in a residential yard counts toward that five-vehicle ceiling on the smaller parcels the same as a licensed pickup truck would.

Larger parcels of one and one-half acres or more fall outside this particular headcount limit, though any inoperable RV or boat on those larger lots can still trip the separate two-vehicle unlicensed/inoperable cap that applies countywide regardless of parcel size. Owners exceeding the five-vehicle count on a smaller parcel can seek relief only where the chapter or a conditional use permit specifically authorizes additional outdoor vehicle storage, mirroring the exception path built into the unlicensed-vehicle limit in the same section. 025.